Autorun Help

Hi all,
Just wanted some help with a autorun problem. Basically I recently reformatted my hard drive to keep things fresh and everything's running smoothly except autoplay/autorun. Firstly I had to enable autoplay via the registry because it wasn't on, anyone know why it wouldn't have enabled automatically? Also it's now on but when I mount an image it doesn't autorun, it just shows the autoplay menu. Here's some screenshots to better explain it.



Usually it would have autorun and have the icon.



My computer also shows it differently, it used to show the icon and double clicking would autorun rather than open in folder.



The Autorun files are there as seen above.

Any help would be much appreciated.

Thanks

 

Microsoft made changes to the AutoRun behavior in Windows 7. However the AutoRun changes shouldn't affect optical media.

Check the AutoRun entries in the registry. There is also a separate entry for your optical disc drive which needs to be set for 1 to enable AutoRun.

I'm not sure why AutoPlay was disabled on your re-install though the software you are using to mount your disc images may have disabled AutoRun during installation.

--L.

 

I've changed the settings in the registry for autoplay, that's how I got it working. However I've just checked the CD specific registry entry and its set at 1 but there is another file there as seen in the screenshot below.



Is that 3rd file meant to be there. It seems it may be the problem. I think the reason this has happened is because of software. I installed some new programs I didn't have before and I think they may have altered some settings. And I have tried different mounting software.

 

This may help: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc960238.aspx

Tread lightly and be sure to backup your registry if you choose to make changes: it is very easy to corrupt or even render your system unbootable with a single registry edit.

--L.

 

Thanks, looks like that's it. I will make sure to backup my registry and I'll try deleting it.